Roberto Billardello

Dr. Roberto Billardello

Università Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Lazio, Italy

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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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18 April 2022 in Diagnostics
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Roberto BillardelloRoberto Billardello
Roberto Billardello
GNGeorgios Ntolkeras
Georgios Ntolkeras
Assia ChericoniAssia Chericoni
Assia Chericoni
Joseph R. MadsenJoseph R. Madsen
Joseph R. Madsen
CHRISTOS PAPADELISCHRISTOS PAPADELIS
CHRISTOS PAPADELIS
ETEleonora Tamilia
Eleonora Tamilia
Delineation of resected brain cavities on magnetic resonance images (MRIs) of epilepsy surgery patients is essential for neuroimaging/neurophysiology studies investigating biomarkers of the epileptogenic zone. The gold standard to delineate the resection on MRI remains manual slice-by-slice tracing by experts. Here, we proposed and validated a semiautomated MRI segmentation pipeline, generating an accurate model of the resection and its anatomical labeling, and developed a graphical user interface (GUI) for user-friendly usage. We retrieved pre- and postoperative MRIs from 35 patients who had focal epilepsy surgery, implemented a region-growing algorithm to delineate the resection on postoperative MRIs and tested its performance while varying different tuning parameters. Similarity between our output and hand-drawn gold standards was evaluated via dice similarity coefficient (DSC; range: 0–1). Additionally, the best segmentation pipeline was trained to provide an automated anatomical report of the resection (based on presurgical brain atlas). We found that the best-performing set of parameters presented DSC of 0.83 (0.72–0.85), high robustness to seed-selection variability and anatomical accuracy of 90% to the clinical postoperative MRI report. We presented a novel user-friendly open-source GUI that implements a semiautomated segmentation pipeline specifically optimized to generate resection models and their anatomical reports from epilepsy surgery patients, while minimizing user interaction.

22 September 2023 in Brain Topography
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ACAssia Chericoni
Assia Chericoni
LRLorenzo Ricci
Lorenzo Ricci
GNGeorgios Ntolkeras
Georgios Ntolkeras
Roberto BillardelloRoberto Billardello
Roberto Billardello
SSScellig S.D. Stone
Scellig S.D. Stone
ETEleonora Tamilia
Eleonora Tamilia